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preg⋅nant

1  [preg-nuhnt]
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–adjective
1. having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
2. fraught, filled, or abounding (usually fol. by with): a silence pregnant with suspense.
3. teeming or fertile; rich (often fol. by in): a mind pregnant in ideas.
4. full of meaning; highly significant: a pregnant utterance.
5. of great importance or potential; momentous: a pregnant moment in the history of the world.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L praegnant- (s. of praegnāns), var. of praegnās, equiv. to prae- pre- + *gnāt- (akin to (g)nātus born, gignere to bring into being) + -s nom. sing. ending

Related forms:
preg⋅nant⋅ly, adverb
preg⋅nant⋅ness, noun
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preg⋅nant

2  [preg-nuhnt]
–adjective Archaic.
convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME preignant < OF, prp. of preindre, earlier priembre to press 1 < L premere. Cf. print
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preg·nant 1   (prěg'nənt)   
adj.  

  1. Carrying developing offspring within the body.

    1. Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.

    2. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: "It was a politically pregnant time in Poland" (New York).

  3. Filled or fraught; replete: "This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future" (Robert Conquest).

  4. Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive.

  5. Producing results; fruitful: a pregnant decision.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]
preg'nant·ly adv.
preg·nant 2   (prěg'nənt)   
adj.   Archaic
Convincing; cogent. Used of an argument or a proof.

[Middle English, probably from Old French preignant, present participle of prembre, to press, from Latin premere; see per-4 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

pregnant  (1)
"convincing, weighty, pithy," c.1374, from O.Fr. preignant, prp. of preindre, from earlier priembre, from L. premere "to press" (see press (v.1)).

pregnant 
"with child," 1545, from L. prægnantem (nom. prægnans, originally prægnas) "with child," lit. "before birth," probably from præ- "before" + root of gnasci "be born." Used much earlier in Eng. in fig. senses (1413); the late record probably reflects its status as a taboo word, which it somewhat retained until c.1950; modern euphemisms include anticipating, enceinte, expecting, in a family way, in a delicate (or interesting) condition. Slang preggers is recorded from 1942. O.E. terms included mid-bearne, lit. "with child;" bearn-eaca, lit. "child-adding" or "child-increasing;" and geacnod "increased." Among c.1800 slang terms for "pregnant" were poisoned (in ref. to the swelling).
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: preg·nant
Pronunciation: 'preg-n&nt
Function: adjective
: containing unborn young within the body : GESTATING
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Medical Dictionary

pregnant preg·nant (prěg'nənt)
adj.
Carrying developing offspring within the body.

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